Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Palm Beach County now has 39 cities (and no, it's not 'West Lake Worth'*)

Wayne Washington at The Palm Beach Post has this news which has the Palm Beach County Commission as enthusiastic "as one has for a root canal." Here are two excerpts:

     It took five people. Five votes. And now, Palm Beach County has a 39th city — Westlake.
     The new city was officially christened Monday night [6/20], when a canvassing board of the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections certified votes in favor of a plan to convert the Seminole Improvement District into a new city called Westlake.
     A public relations firm working for Minto Communities announced the news, which was greeted by county commissioners Tuesday with as much enthusiasm as one has for a root canal.

[and. . .]

     The move means Minto’s project can have more than the 4,500 homes it told the county it plans to build. Minto could go beyond the massive 2.2 million square feet of non-residential development it had planned for the 3,800-acre tract located west of The Acreage.
     “They will be their own government,” County Administrator Verdenia Baker told commissioners.

*Some in the media, if you've noticed, have now settled on a misleading new meme for all those communities out in western Palm Beach County: the phantom city of West Lake Worth. All this does is further confuse the public.